{"id":46071,"date":"2014-05-22T20:01:02","date_gmt":"2014-05-23T00:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=46071"},"modified":"2014-05-22T20:01:02","modified_gmt":"2014-05-23T00:01:02","slug":"5-items-re-robotics-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2014\/05\/22\/5-items-re-robotics-2\/","title":{"rendered":"5 items re: robotics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.qut.edu.au\/about\/news\/news?news-id=70136\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>New centre will give robots the gift of sight<\/strong> <\/a>&#8212; from Queensland University of Technology; <span class=\"newsfulldate\">18 March 2014<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;Society is on the cusp of a revolution in robotics in which personal robots will become an everyday fact of life. What we need to make this happen is to develop technology which allows a robot to perceive its environment &#8211; to sense, understand and learn from the information it gathers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;We want to use cameras in robots, which are less costly and use less power than other types of sensors,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;Cameras provide very rich information about the world, and we know from our own experience that our eyes, which are just cameras, provide the information we need to perform complex tasks like driving cars or picking up objects.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;This Centre will deliver the science and technologies that will turn cameras into powerful sensing devices capable of understanding and responding to their environment, and enabling robots to operate reliably over long periods, in complex unstructured surroundings where they will interact with humans as well as objects, many of which will require delicate handling.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/robohub.org\/us-army-to-test-robots-that-think-look-move-talk-work\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>US Army to test robots that \u201cthink \u2013 look \u2013 move \u2013 talk \u2013 work\u201d<\/strong> <\/a>&#8212; from\u00a0robohub.org by Colin Lewis<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">A <a class=\"ext-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.defense.gov\/pubs\/DOD-USRM-2013.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external nofollow\">report<\/a> issued by the US Department of Defense shows that the army intends to test robots that \u201cthink \u2013 look \u2013 move \u2013 talk and work.\u201d Figure 24 from the report summarizes the Army\u2019s vision for these five problem domains, barriers to achieving its vision, and work to be done to advance toward the vision.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/innovationinsights.wired.com\/insights\/2014\/05\/deep-learnings-role-age-robots\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Deep Learning\u2019s Role in the Age of Robots<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from innovationinsights.wired.com by Julian Green<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"minitext \" style=\"width: 100%; padding: 10px 0px 20px; text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/robohub.org\/robots-app-brings-world-of-robotics-to-ipad\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Review: Robots App brings world of robotics to iPad<\/strong> <\/a>&#8212; from by Colin Lewis<\/div>\n<div class=\"minitext \" style=\"width: 100%; padding: 10px 0px 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30801 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/robohub.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IEEE_Spectrum_-robots-app.jpg\" alt=\"IEEE_Spectrum_-robots-app\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/automaton\/robotics\/industrial-robots\/avidbots-want-to-industrialize-robot-cleaning\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Avidbots wants to automate commercial cleaning with robots<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from spectrum.ieee.orgby Evan Ackerman<\/p>\n<div class=\"metadata\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/automaton\/robotics\/industrial-robots\/avidbots-want-to-industrialize-robot-cleaning\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/img\/avidbots1-1398821868511.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New centre will give robots the gift of sight &#8212; from Queensland University of Technology; 18 March 2014 Excerpt: &#8220;Society is on the cusp of a revolution in robotics in which personal robots will become an everyday fact of life. 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